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UK top court to rule on Shamima Begum's demand to return to Britain

Begum left her parents' home in East London in 2015 when she was just 15 to travel to Syria to join IS. She was stripped of her nationality in 2019, a decision she is legally challenging.

23/11/2020

United Kingdom

Coronavirus: England arrivals will be able to cut quarantine with test

Passengers arriving in the UK from COVID-19 high-risk areas will soon be able to more than halve their quartine period by taking a private test.

23/11/2020

United Kingdom

Coronavirus: England facing tighter restrictions when lockdown ends

Prime minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce changes to the existing tiered system, putting some parts of England under tighter restrictions after the national lockdown ends on December 2.

22/11/2020

United Kingdom

UK signs trade deal with Canada to prepare for Brexit

The deal signed with Canada means the two countries will continue to trade under the same rules as when the UK was an EU member state while they negotiate a "bespoke" agreement.

21/11/2020

United Kingdom

COVID-19 patients have immunity for six months, study finds

Once infected with Coronavirus, you are unlikely to get it again for six months, according to a report from Oxford University

20/11/2020

Travel News

Plans are underway to build a road beneath this prehistoric monument

Plans have been approved to build a tunnel which will run beneath a UK UNESCO world heritage site.

20/11/2020

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London black cabs lie in 'taxi graveyard' amid COVID-19 lockdown

Around 150 London black cabs are being stored in a field outside the UK capital because of a lack of demand for rides amid the latest lockdown.

20/11/2020

United Kingdom

UK PM rescues interior minister after report finds she bullied staff

Instead of Patel resigning, the PM's advisor on ministerial standards quit.

20/11/2020

United Kingdom

Millennium Seed Bank celebrates 20 years of preserving plant heritage

The Millennium Seed Bank, the world’s largest collector of wild plant seeds, has stored 2.4 billion seeds in the 20 years since it opened.

19/11/2020

Travel News

Guaranteed no-quarantine trips to the Caribbean have been launched

`The ultimate game of travel roulette has just dropped with this new holiday package, which also guarantees you won't have to quarantine when you return to the UK.

19/11/2020

Culture news

Booker Prize 2020: Scottish writer Douglas Stuart wins for debut novel

Booker Prize 2020: Scottish writer Douglas Stuart wins for debut novel

19/11/2020

United Kingdom

Boris Johnson announces huge hike in UK defence funding

The additional £16.5 billion (€18.4 billion) will put the UK second in defence spending among NATO allies after the United States.

19/11/2020

United Kingdom

Oxford vaccine is safe and provokes response in adults over 56: study

Older people are at a disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19 disease, so it is essential that any vaccine adopted for use is effective in this group.

19/11/2020

Food and Drink

English winemakers take on the French with their very own 'Nouveau'

A vineyard in the west of England has created the first UK take on Beaujolais Nouveau thanks to increasing summer temperatures.

18/11/2020

United Kingdom

No-deal Brexit 'bonanza' for organised crime, says N Ireland minister

UK MPs have heard that Brexit risks negative impacts on crime and trade in Northern Ireland when the transition period expires at the end of the year.

18/11/2020

Green News

The UK’s Green Revolution plan is ‘nowhere near enough’, say critics

Boris Johnson's new climate pledge is worth £12 billion, but does it go far enough?

18/11/2020

United Kingdom

UK unveils £12 billion plan to create a Green Industrial Revolution

The UK government said the money would go towards making buildings more energy-efficient and roads cleaner but opposition parties say it's too little.

18/11/2020

United Kingdom

Jeremy Corbyn told he cannot sit as Labour MP amid anti-Semitism row

Current leader Keir Starmer made the move after Corbyn was readmitted to the party this week, having been suspended for playing down the extent of anti-Semitism in Labour ranks.

18/11/2020

United Kingdom

Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reinstated to UK opposition party

Corbyn was suspended in October after stating that allegations of antisemitism in the party were "dramatically overstated".

17/11/2020

Green News

PETA demands celebs stop buying designer dogs and adopt from shelters

The latest animal rights' group campaign launches today with the message: ‘Dear Famous People, Stop Buying Dogs’.

17/11/2020

United Kingdom

Easyjet reports first-ever annual loss amid coronavirus pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis saw planes grounded across the world and EasyJet's passenger numbers halved.

17/11/2020

Green News

Ultra-rare rhino birth is caught on camera at Chester Zoo

The new calf is a major milestone for her species, as there are fewer than 1,000 eastern black rhinos left on earth.

16/11/2020

World

Irish FM says EU and UK have to make 'big progress' ahead of deadline

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney believes that talks have ‘got to make big progress.’

16/11/2020

United Kingdom

Liverpool introduces mass testing for secondary school pupils

Soldiers are manning sites all over the city after the army was been drafted in to carry out the tests. The first phase of a government scheme known as 'Operation moonshot'.

16/11/2020

Green News

How dogs are using their special powers to help us save water

With a sense of smell 10,000 times sharper than ours, dogs can have a significant impact in the conservation sector.

16/11/2020

United Kingdom

'I feel great,' says Johnson as he starts COVID-19 self-isolation

UK PM Boris Johnson goes into isolation after contact with a person infected with COVID-19.

15/11/2020